Hi there. If you find sexually explicit content offensive go ahead and be offended. I meanhow you got to this site is beyond me. I mean there must be a billion sickos on the internettrying to find this stuff and failing miserably. I mean I never advertised this site, or evensubmitted it to any search engines (at least not since my last reopening). So you must havesome kind of deep down need for this stuff if you're here. Either way stick around you mightfind discover something about the dark side of humanity you never knew was lurking there. Youmight discover that you too aren't what would be considered normal. And what would be theharm in that.
I really enjoyed it, but unless you are a pubescent male or a real weirdo you'll probably misssomething of the enjoyment of watching incredibly cute teenage lesbian illustrated in pastelcolours go at it for hours on end. Maybe but there really is something to it.
Now back to the ranting. Some people may ask me why I am doing this. And most would be inclinedto believe that it is because of money. Of course that is ridiculous because I don't makeany money off of this site. In fact I lose a steady 10$ US a month on this site. I used tohave a banner but that barely brought in 3$ a month and that was just me and a friend clickingon it once a day, and we got tired of that so I got rid of it.
Some might think I'm on some kind of moral quest, like so many other warez, abandonware,hardcore providers out there. Well that's not true either. I fully realize that the contentsof my site are offensive and or illegal and or immoral and or any number of other things.However I came along this stuff while surfing the net and it took me a lifetime. Well not alifetime but about 6 or 7 years, which considering the fact that I'm 18 now is what I wouldconsider considerably more than a life time (but I won't get into reconciling logical paradoxesfor the time being).
So finally what it all boils down to is me wanting to give back to the community that turnedme into this warped, sick, and twisted piece of human rubage. I have striven to make thiswebsite as organic as possible in order to really get to the root of the matter at hand,namely the way, in which technology can warp human beings, or more correctly the greatdegree of flexibility that we as humans have in adapting ourselves to technology.
Many if not most of the great problems of all time have been solved by technology. This isprobably because we are very limited beings, and I think that it is an excellent pieceof historical evidence to argue in that direction.>>>>>> This paragraph is becoming too obtuse(? I mean the meaning is becoming obfuscated, sorry). Will clarify it later.
So the internet and related technologies allow us to share information like never before.And said information, our culture, our thoughts, our lives, has been produced by large facelesscorporations in search of a fast buck. So what do we share on this information highway:pictures of our children and pets off of overpriced webcams... Whatever... Yes it would bebetter if we all could create our own culture and not be so consumeristic all the time, butwhere are we going to get the ressources? How are we going to change the world? Well I sayone kilobyte at a time.
Publishers in France are (or were very recently) lobbying to put an end to free public libraries.They claimed that the libraries were cutting into their sales and wanted them to charge a feewhen a book was checked out. It was clear that they didn't believe in the idea of free culturefor the masses. They believe that culture is a product just like any other product. Well I tellyou what, why should I care about them. Why should I care about their economic viability. It doesn'tmake a bit of difference to me wheither I can't read a book because it isn't economically viableto publish it because too many people are copying it or if it's just too expensive for me toafford. I mean if I'm supposed to look at it from the point of view of my best interest, I mustconclude that my intrests are in conflict with those of the purveyors of said content.
It's really extremism on the part of the corporations that is pushing us this way. Theydon't want a comfortable middle ground. They want to milk us for every last penny we've got.But don't let them fool you we're winning this fight. I remember going into HMV (a largemusic store here in Canada) and seeing CDs of old albums by famous artists selling for as muchas 28.99$ canadian (about 19$ US). I knew the store was making an enormous profit, but whatwas I going to do. Well I went to an independant store that sold for less (how does that workout, wouldn't the independant store have to sell for more, since they have a lower volumeof sales?) So eventually it hits HMV. I was there again a few days ago and I was surprisedto see that many (but not all, just check out the prices on their rolling stones albums.They have hundreds of their cds' in stock but don't even carry all their full albums and theysell the one's they do carry for a hell of a lot more than they are worth) were much cheaperthan they were a year or two ago. Well it was obvious what had happened. Either independantchannels of distribution or mp3s or just diminishing sales had pushed them to lower their prices.
What's the point there? You ask, and rightly too. Well I guess it's that you shouldn'tshed tears for these huge faceless corporations hiding behind these "poor" artists who areas full of themselves as the rest of the industry. Think for yourself, and don't let themimpose their morality on you.
Since the dawn of search engines, there have been tactics designed to take advantage and game their algorithms. For the past 20 (or more) years it has been a cat and mouse game for the search engines trying to modify their code in an attempt to maintain a search engine with quality results.
In other words, no one really took them seriously. Remember, Google really was not dominating the search engine game until 2007-08. There were a number of search engines vying for position including Yahoo, Webcrawler, Excite, Lycos and a number of others. Most of these search engines had fairly game-able algorithms, ripe for the pickings. I found a list of about 1600 search engines from that time during my research.
Most webmasters saw a webring as a way to generate traffic and links for their website. While this might hold some truth, the owner of the webring really got the full benefit with so many 1 way links pointing back to their domain.
Now, the real selling point of these links is that you get relevant links from relevant websites. So if you own a goat farm website you will only get links from other goat farms, and you will only link out to other goat farms.
These services were literally a dime a dozen, and many of them sadly still exist today. The next tier of SEO services during this day would essentially do the same thing, but add in some extras such as on-page SEO. Some of them would go as far as creating and uploading of a site map for you. Not a whole lot of inbound marketing or content marketing going on back then.
SEO consultants thrived during this era due to the simplicity of those search engines, however the market was not what it is today. Very few companies existed on the web pre 2005 and eCommerce was a very scary thing for many people during that time.
This is a hairy SEO topic that is difficult to illustrate and was hard to find examples of. Cloaking is basically when a site shows one version of a page to a user, and another version to search engines. For the most part cloaking is done via the sites htaccess or robots.txt.
Cloaking was very popular 10 or more years ago when Flash was very popular however very non-optimal for SEO. Matt Cutts wrote a really interesting post on cloaking in 2007, the comments also raise some really interesting points as well.
When the user pushes 'submit' on the form, we read the textarea comments from the user, and then programmatically create a filename in that user's subfolder and save their comments to a file. Then we add the filename and path to that user's database record.
The team is not worried about security issues here but I am. Their thinking is "we create the filename, it is 0% based on any user input, and since we write this 'UserX comments' filename and path to the database with no direct user influence -- there is no risk."
My concern is NOT the database activity -- because they're right, the user has no role in WHAT we write to their database record since we're just creating our own filename and storing it in their db record.
My concern is -- since we plan to actually READ our user's feedback and open these text files to read them later on -- there might be bad stuff in the textarea that (unless we clean it) could hurt us somehow.
I'm insisting we use strip_tags() but I need to sound informed about the manner in which we sanitize the textarea input -- I'm thinking strip_tags() is the way to go here but I'm 100% new to sanitizing user input. I looked at htmlspecialchars() but that just converts certain characters like '&' to &and so forth.
If you're not worried about SQL injection, and it seems you're not (either because you know the SQL is sanitized or because you're saving to a text file), then the other problem is the possible XSS attack.
It's easy to ignore those, they don't affect you directly. An XSS attack is an attack that allows one to inject client-side scripts into a webpage. Your database works fine, your server files are not modified, your session files aren't modified either.
This vulnerability is completely client-side. Like I said, it doesn't affect your server. But then someone (i.e.: me) goes on your website, and all of a sudden is redirected to a Warez site while viewing a totally SFW, trusted website. You lose trust from your users. The search engines that crawl your site also mark you as possibly harmful. You lose traffic. You lose revenues. Then again, your server is perfectly fine.
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